Season Kick-off Event

[brucealmighy]

Joe Trost has been covering high school sports for years and has runs the largest soccer tournament in the country. He is expanding to lacrosse this spring and today announced he is going to be putting on a two week event to kick off the football season next year. This is from his website:

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GETTING CLOSER: The PepsiCo Showdown Football Bowl is close to kicking off…well closer than it was back in August (come on now!). The 16-school event will become the first regular-season football tournament in the U.S., which some major D-I college coaches have said will create one of the most unique recruiting experiences anywhere in the country.

On back-to-back weekends in Week 1 and 2, all 16 schools are set to play at the same site, thus allowing out-of-state recruiters to fly in and see 16 schools and nearly 1,000 football players play at the same site in 36 hours. There will be four PepsiCo Showdown champions each year.

Five of the schools involved in the inaugural event are still standing in the IHSA Class 7A and 8A state playoffs.”

 

[Panthers1211]

Joe Trost has been covering high school sports for years and has runs the largest soccer tournament in the country. He is expanding to lacrosse this spring and today announced he is going to be putting on a two week event to kick off the football season next year. This is from his website:

“
GETTING CLOSER: The PepsiCo Showdown Football Bowl is close to kicking off…well closer than it was back in August (come on now!). The 16-school event will become the first regular-season football tournament in the U.S., which some major D-I college coaches have said will create one of the most unique recruiting experiences anywhere in the country.

On back-to-back weekends in Week 1 and 2, all 16 schools are set to play at the same site, thus allowing out-of-state recruiters to fly in and see 16 schools and nearly 1,000 football players play at the same site in 36 hours. There will be four PepsiCo Showdown champions each year.

Five of the schools involved in the inaugural event are still standing in the IHSA Class 7A and 8A state playoffs.”

Where will the games be played at?

 

[Irish LB]

Joe Trost has been covering high school sports for years and has runs the largest soccer tournament in the country. He is expanding to lacrosse this spring and today announced he is going to be putting on a two week event to kick off the football season next year. This is from his website:

“
GETTING CLOSER: The PepsiCo Showdown Football Bowl is close to kicking off…well closer than it was back in August (come on now!). The 16-school event will become the first regular-season football tournament in the U.S., which some major D-I college coaches have said will create one of the most unique recruiting experiences anywhere in the country.

On back-to-back weekends in Week 1 and 2, all 16 schools are set to play at the same site, thus allowing out-of-state recruiters to fly in and see 16 schools and nearly 1,000 football players play at the same site in 36 hours. There will be four PepsiCo Showdown champions each year.

Five of the schools involved in the inaugural event are still standing in the IHSA Class 7A and 8A state playoffs.”

 

[brucealmighy]

Where will the games be played at?

Has not been announced. I am sure it will be a quality facility based on what he has done with the soccer series. It should be a great event. Typically he gets a lot of coverage on CLTV, has a combine included and a charity component.

 

[No Bias---Just Reality]

Joe Trost has been covering high school sports for years and has runs the largest soccer tournament in the country. He is expanding to lacrosse this spring and today announced he is going to be putting on a two week event to kick off the football season next year. This is from his website:

“
GETTING CLOSER: The PepsiCo Showdown Football Bowl is close to kicking off…well closer than it was back in August (come on now!). The 16-school event will become the first regular-season football tournament in the U.S., which some major D-I college coaches have said will create one of the most unique recruiting experiences anywhere in the country.

On back-to-back weekends in Week 1 and 2, all 16 schools are set to play at the same site, thus allowing out-of-state recruiters to fly in and see 16 schools and nearly 1,000 football players play at the same site in 36 hours. There will be four PepsiCo Showdown champions each year.

Five of the schools involved in the inaugural event are still standing in the IHSA Class 7A and 8A state playoffs.”

Link to this? Searched and only kept finding the soccer stuff even on the social media links.

 

[brucealmighy]

Link to this? Searched and only kept finding the soccer stuff even on the social media links.

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https://cornerkicksmedia.com/2019/1...tball-cross-country-scholarships-ihssca-more/

 

[Marica]

And the Illinois schools are?

 

[EdgyTim]

Interesting especially the recruiting angle since college teams will be fully involved in getting ready for the season and they very seldom go “out” recruiting in late August unless they are on the road in that same city for a game.

 

[No Bias---Just Reality]

Interesting especially the recruiting angle since college teams will be fully involved in getting ready for the season and they very seldom go “out” recruiting in late August unless they are on the road in that same city for a game.

He’s probably over-selling that angle not knowing he doesn’t need to. Football teams will play good early games in an event like this just for the sake of playing the games. But he’s used to promoting events to soccer teams (much like you would pump a travel baseball or lacrosse tournament) who are looking to sign up for exposure oriented events. He likely doesn’t even know the recruiting landscape of football and how it works. Football may be out of his “lane” but if he can bring the good teams together in a quality venue and the teams and fans enjoy it then more power to him.

 

[godfthr53]

Where will the games be played at?

The field I heard i disagree with for an event this big.

 

[No Bias---Just Reality]

The field I heard i disagree with for an event this big.

Say it ain’t gately

 

[EdgyTim]

He’s probably over-selling that angle not knowing he doesn’t need to. Football teams will play good early games in an event like this just for the sake of playing the games. But he’s used to promoting events to soccer teams (much like you would pump a travel baseball or lacrosse tournament) who are looking to sign up for exposure oriented events. He likely doesn’t even know the recruiting landscape of football and how it works. Football may be out of his “lane” but if he can bring the good teams together in a quality venue and the teams and fans enjoy it then more power to him.

Agree but until he has signed contracts I wouldn’t get too excited...this has been explored before and it’s much more harder and complicated than you’d think

 

[refref01]

if it is 5 of 8 still active in 7A and 8A its a ccl thing with lwe conference.

 

[brucealmighy]

Maybe the DVC? Gotta be a conference that allows for several non conference games since it will be played for 2 straight weeks to start the season

 

[Irish LB]

if it is 5 of 8 still active in 7A and 8A its a ccl thing with lwe conference.

Yeah it’s really not that hard to figure out who.

 

[mc140]

Maybe he could pay d1 coaches to attend who have no interest in signing anyone like the people who run some of the baseball showcases do?

 

[DeanOfSelection]

if it is 5 of 8 still active in 7A and 8A its a ccl thing with lwe conference.

Looking at some of the schedules for next year, LWE is at Stevenson week 1 and hosts Nap C week 2

 

[PepsiCoShowdown]

Hi, contracts are signed, have been since last year. It has always been set to start in 2021, as most teams were locked into two-year contracts. No need to oversell anything, just be patient you’ll see. Long-track record, should be great for student athletes, communities and colleges - on AND off the field.